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What does this have to do with the President? Just sounds like another guy that wants to blame all of the ills of the world on Obama.

This is terrible news, I was really hoping for a happy ending. The stepdad's story makes absolutely no sense to me. What kind of father leaves his child alone to go out drinking with his friends, and he called his mother at 1am to borrow her truck and she actually came right over. Noone checked on the girl, and he was gone for five hours after that. I'm sorry that I'm casting judgement, and if he's innocent I apologize. I just need to vent. This story and it's outcome really bothers me.

Java, Java, and Java Seriously, stay away from COBOL, it's ancient and well past it's prime. I know a couple of Java programmers and they get job offers constantly. One switches jobs about once a year because the demand is so great. The other works for the government. C++ and Visual are good, I don't know much about RPG. I would just find my dream job on monster.com and see what languages they are looking for.

I'm looking for a free message board host for my website. It doesn't have to be fancy or very powerful, it's just a family website, but it does have to be free. I would really like to find one that is easy to use, I barely have time to update the website, much less manage a message board. Can anyone recommend a good one or one's to stay away from?

I've been to Estes Park quite a few times, most recently in 2004, and I would highly recommend it. There are many places to camp, many things to do(especially for kids), and Rocky Mountain National Park is breathtaking. This campground borders RMNP and has reasonable rates http://www.estesparkcampground.com/. I have about a million pictures of RMNP if you want to see any.

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Being born and raised in St. Louis, I physically can't root for a Chicago team to win anything, ever. It's childish, but I can't control it. Indy 312 Chicago 2

Phil, it was the downtown Best Western, near the landing. For what it's worth, one of the other guests said that they were charging "in season" rates, instead of the normal January rates. He claimed you could usually get a room at that hotel in January for less than half what they were charging. Since returning I've heard of many Branson hotels offering rooms at discounted rates, just hard to get that information out to people with no power.

Sunday night We're one of the lucky ones in Springfield, our power is back on. We spent one night at the in-laws farm and one in a Branson hotel. Gotta love a hotel with the class to raise their rates for people in need. Paid $85 plus fee for the dog for one night, total $95. Checked the internet when we got home, same hotel : $50. I won't give the name of the hotel, but it rhymes with West Bestern. The girl at the front desk said everyone in the hotel was a refugee from Springfield. As for the storm, we lost two trees and too many branches to count. It looks like a frozen tornado went through our neighborhood. One of our neghbors had a tree fall on the power line to their home, ripped the wires out from the house, they'll be out for a while. We got lucky, the only real damage is to the privacy fence, which is missing about 4 sections, but overall nothing major. I was hoping something would fall on our ugly shed, but no such luck. We checked on the house Sunday, and there was a tractor-trailer in the local grocery store parking lot selling generators and chain saws out of the back of the truck. There were probably 50 people in line waiting.

freezing rain all night here on Springfield. I've already had a tree branch fall through a section of my fence, and have lost two large branches in the front yard. Just hoping that the fence is the only thing to get hit tonight.

Those will never pass. A ban on ammunition not for sporting use, what are you supposed to shoot propane tanks with? 6 rounds per magazine? I can't see what good that will do. A majority of the new Democrats in congress ran on pro-gun, anti-gun control platforms. I don't see them trying this.

what is the proposed anti-gun law? I haven't heard anything about one, do you have a link?

How did they put the security of the troops and the nation in jeopardy? The democrats have passed no legislation and have had little or no influence on policy, and the press only does a 30-second blurb about Iraq at the top of the evening news. There was no affection before the war. The ties have been created by the war and occupation. They aren't siding as much with the Iraqi's, as against us. Al Qaeda couldn't care less about the Iraqi government or people, they just want to kill Americans.

Has anyone ever fished Big Cedar's nature park, Dogwood Canyon? I've been there a couple of times just to look around, but never fished there. We went on a Saturday in the summer, and the people we saw fishing were surrounded by onlookers. Would the crowds be smaller during the week and in the winter? Is the fishing worth it? A friend and I were looking at trying one of the pay to fish places this winter, and Dogwood looked like the closest to Springfield. Thanks.